Heartland

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Heartland is our biggest neighborhood, and it feels like a small town. Families share their news, grandparents post recipes, and hometown businesses put out their shingle.

Featured Homesteads in Heartland

	The Henderson Family Home Page by Bob & Linda Henderson · Heartland/Prairie News from an Iowa family of four (plus Buster the beagle), Grandma Ruth's recipes, and home of the Front Porch WebRing.
	Hartley Hardware & Garden BUSINESS Heartland/Plains Oakdale's hometown hardware store since 1962: key cutting, paint mixing, small engine repair and fall garden specials.
	The Nguyen Family: Our First Ten Years in Iowa by The Nguyen family, Des Moines · Heartland/Valley A family's story from Saigon to Des Moines: the restaurant, the kids, the first snow.
	Aunt Peggy's Craft Corner by Peggy Sorensen · Heartland/Meadows Cross-stitch, Christmas ornaments and the craft bazaar circuit: patterns and tips from forty years of crafting.
	Life on a Cattle Ranch, Nebraska Sandhills by The Brackett family · Heartland/Ranch A year on a cow-calf operation: calving, branding, haying and the one-room school six miles away.
	Church Potluck Cookbook by The Ladies' Aid Society · Heartland/Hills Fifty years of potluck recipes from a small-town church, typed up for the Web.
	Volunteer Fire Department, Company 3 by Chief Roy Haskins · Heartland/Pointe A volunteer fire company's page: how to join, the trucks, the pancake breakfast and the fall calls.
	Hog Prices and Other Heartbreaks JOURNAL by Dennis Kruse · Heartland/Farm An Iowa hog farmer writes about the price collapse, his wife's town job and whether to sell out.
	Velma's Sampler JOURNAL by Velma Stroud, 88 · Heartland/Hills An eighty-eight-year-old Kansas woman, with her great-granddaughter at the keyboard, writes about the Dust Bowl, her husband and getting old.
	After the Storm JOURNAL by Rhonda Easley · Heartland/Pointe An Oklahoma mother whose house was taken by the May 3 tornado writes about the trailer, the insurance and the fear of the sky.
	The Petersen Place by Lorna Petersen · Heartland/Plains A sixty-seven-year-old farm wife in North Dakota says hello and tells you about her kitchen and her husband.
	Pastor Dwight's Page by Pastor Dwight Coombs · Heartland/Valley A small-town Methodist pastor introduces himself, his congregation and his tomatoes.
	WE'VE MOVED! The Davenport Family Home Page by Gary & Dawn Davenport · Heartland/Farm The Davenport family of western Kansas has a new address. Please update your bookmarks!
	The Calico Cupboard by Arlene Lemke · Heartland/Valley Our fabric and quilt shop on Main Street has closed after twenty years. Thank you, and here's what happens now.
	Baby Powell Is On The Way! by Curt Powell · Heartland/Farm Our first baby is due March 18, 1997! The countdown, baby news from the farm, the baby pool and the names we like.
	Grandma Verna's Kitchen by Jolene Sisk · Heartland/Ranch For my grandma, a Kansas ranch wife who fed everybody who came up her lane. Her bierocks, noodles, cookies and rhubarb pie.
	For Mom by Roger Lindell · Heartland/Pointe My mother raised two kids alone in Grand Island, Nebraska, and fed half the town. What I should have said to her.
	Rest Easy, Troy by Duane Rasmussen · Heartland/Valley In memory of Firefighter Troy Ekstrom of the Carver Falls Volunteer Fire Department, killed in a farmhouse fire, November 14, 1998.
	Hollis Creek Volunteer Fire Department by Travis Meinke · Heartland/Valley Twenty-nine volunteers covering 96 square miles of farm country: our trucks, this year's calls, the pancake breakfast, and how to join.
	Hammers & Hope: Bethany Youth Mission Trip '99 by Jill Brekke · Heartland/Prairie Fourteen teens, five grown-ups and a week of home repair in the Kentucky mountains. Read our journal and see where your pie money went.
	Cottonwood Elementary PTA - Fall Festival 1999 by Shelly Vandenberg · Heartland/Plains Everything about the Cougars' Fall Festival on October 22: tickets, booths, the Haunted Hallway, and the volunteer shifts we still need filled.
	Stars Over the Sandhills: Sandhill Crane Quilters' Guild by LaVonne Schuett · Heartland/Ranch Results of our 14th annual quilt show: Best of Show, Viewers' Choice, the raffle quilt winner and every ribbon by category.
	Clover Ridge Go-Getters 4-H Club by Brenda Schoonover · Heartland/Prairie Our Iowa 4-H club's county fair week: champions, the herdsmanship award, the lemonade stand, our buyers, and what's coming this fall.
	Prairie Hawk Estates Homeowners Association by Marilyn Esterhaus · Heartland/Farm News, Neighborhood Watch alerts, covenant reminders and board minutes for the 142 homes of Prairie Hawk Estates in south Lincoln.
	Tolliver Lions Club by Harlan Brown · Heartland/Farm Thirty-one Lions serving a Kansas town of 1,200 since 1948: the pancake feed, broom sale, vision screening, Christmas lights and our history.
	Searching for My Son by Janice Holmquist · Heartland/Meadows I am looking for the son I placed for adoption in Kansas City in March 1973. If you might be him, please write.
	From Jiangxi to the Farm by Lori Aaberg · Heartland/Farm How our daughter came home from China to our Minnesota farm in 1997, with our paperwork timeline, travel journal and tips.
	All Aboard with Nathan by Joanne Pawlak · Heartland/Meadows An Indiana family's page about our six-year-old son with autism, his love of trains, our story and what works at our house.
	Taking Care of Mom by Glen Teigen · Heartland/Prairie A Nebraska mail carrier and his wife care for his mother, a retired country schoolteacher, through Alzheimer's disease.
	Every Other Weekend by Ray Sundquist · Heartland/Valley An Iowa lineman's page for divorced dads: the hard first year, lessons learned, legal basics and forty cheap weekend ideas.
	The Night Shift by Glenn Harstad · Heartland/Valley A Wisconsin dad writes for other parents of kids with epilepsy: our story, the basics, the babysitter plan, school, and hope.
	Two Hands Full by Tamika Rollins · Heartland/Valley A Kansas City mom of two passes on what other single moms taught her: money help, cheap suppers, a babysitting swap and pen pals.
	Hanging On by Deb Paull · Heartland/Meadows An Iowa farm wife on the hog price crash and grain slump of 1998 and 1999: our story, our numbers, and what's helping.
	Tamarack Falls Paper Company 1902-1998 by Lyle Haugen · Heartland/Meadows Our paper mill ran ninety-six years and closed in March 1998. What it was like, the last day, and the people who worked there.
	Pastor Harold J. Sievers 1921-1999 by Joanne Riedel · Heartland/Ranch Our pastor at Trinity Lutheran in Willow Fork, Nebraska, for thirty-eight years. His life, what we remember, and the order of his funeral service.
	You Might Be From Minnesota If... by Genevieve Clifford · Heartland/Ranch Fifty signs you might be from Minnesota, from hotdish to the Halloween Blizzard, plus a little Minnesotan-English dictionary.
	The Fridge Notebook by Jeanette Hubbert · Heartland/Meadows Things our three kids said in 1999, month by month, straight from the notebook on top of our fridge.
	The Official Cow-Tipping Page by Ben and Marcia Jones · Heartland/Pointe Nobody tips cows. Two Iowa dairy farmers explain why, keep score, and introduce sixty-two Holsteins who have never been tipped.
	Great Bend WxCam by Kent Stampley · Heartland/Plains A backyard weather camera and Davis station on the west edge of Great Bend, Kansas, looking west-southwest, the way the weather comes. Greatest hits and a storm log.
	Christmas 1998 at the Robichauds' by Susan Robichaud · Heartland/Plains Our Christmas pictures, finally, for Grandma Betty in Mesa and the family in Oregon: the tree, the Nintendo, the Furby, Fred's nap and the snowman.
	Amber's First Year by Wendi Pokorny · Heartland/Farm Our daughter Amber's first year on the farm in Nebraska, month by month, from the hospital in Kearney to her first birthday cake, all off the floppy-disk camera.
	The Messer Family Reunion by Roberta Powe · Heartland/Farm The 43rd annual reunion at the home place, July 18, 1999: the report, the family record, the tree and the pictures.
	Dirt to Done by Billy and Tracy Wickham · Heartland/Valley Building our ranch house in Papillion, Nebraska, one Saturday a month: from frozen dirt in February to moving day in September 1999.
	Picnic in the Park 1999 by Veronica Yardley · Heartland/Prairie Calvary Lutheran's annual picnic in McPherson, Kansas: the potluck, Pastor Jeff's barrel grill, sack races, horseshoes, homemade ice cream and one water balloon.
	Lorene's Country Graphics by Lorene Galyean · Heartland/Pointe Free country graphics from a Kansas farm kitchen: red gingham, sunflower bullets, patchwork buttons and a winking cow. Help yourself, neighbor.
	The Family Friendly Seal of Approval by Charlie and Gladys Amos · Heartland/Plains We look over every page and link together after supper, and give our Seal to sites we'd be glad to have the grandkids see.
	Pappaw's Dinner Bucket by Krystal Lheureux · Heartland/Hills My Pappaw worked underground in southern West Virginia for thirty-eight years. His life, his words, and the note he always left in his dinner bucket.
	Michele's Little House Page by Michele, 10 · Heartland/Prairie I read all nine Little House books! Laura's family, my favorite book, the TV show, and what I'd pack in a covered wagon.
	Stephanie's Quinceañera - June 12, 1999 by Robert and Josephine Ramirez · Heartland/Valley Our granddaughter Stephanie turned fifteen: a Mass, a court of fourteen, a waltz with her father and a dance for 300. For family who couldn't come.
	Simon & Tamara's Big Move: Columbus to Denver by Simon and Tamara Brann · Heartland/Valley One rental truck, one car on a tow dolly, two cats and 1,270 miles of I-70: Columbus to Denver in June 1999. His captions and hers.
	Genova Farm Ice Storm News by Dorothea Genova · Heartland/Meadows We're all right! News from our dairy farm in the North Country for family and friends: the ice, the cows, the generator and the crews.
	The Garrow Christmas Light Cam by Gregory Garrow · Heartland/Pointe 38,000 lights on one house in Fort Wayne. The camera runs all year. Lighting night is Friday, November 26, and yes, I'm already testing strands.
	Junior Class Float - Homecoming '99!!! by Deborah, 16 · Heartland/Hills Two weeks in a machine shed, about 40,000 tissue-paper squares and one giant pirate ship. Homecoming 1999, junior class float, second place (we were robbed).
	Forty-Two: The Texas Domino Game by Buddy Regan · Heartland/Ranch How to play 42, the domino game every Texas granddad played: bidding, trumps, the count, Nello, and our Saturday game at the domino hall.
	Gram's Century: Ruby Sarver, 1898-1999 by Cindy Morrison · Heartland/Prairie My grandmother was born in a Nebraska sod house in 1898 and died this August at 101. Her century, year by year, as she told it to me.
	Pages for the End of the Line by Harlan Barnes · Heartland/Ranch I live at the end of nine miles of phone line. Build pages that load out here and everybody wins. This page practices what it preaches.
	Prairie Iron Antique Power Club by James and Janice Hoeft · Heartland/Farm Old iron in east-central Iowa: our 1999 show and threshing bee, the tractor pull results, the fall color drive, members' tractors, and how to join.
	Chelsea's Lambs - County Fair 1999 by Pamela Cacho · Heartland/Ranch Fair week 1999 from the sheep barn: Chelsea's two Suffolk lambs, the weigh-in, showmanship, a purple ribbon, and the hardest part, the sale.
	Threshing Day - August 1999 by Clayton Bush · Heartland/Farm I drove my 1948 Farmall H in the parade and pitched bundles into a threshing machine like I did as a boy. August 1999.
	Home Ec for the Hopeless by Margaret Lester · Heartland/Meadows Thirty years teaching home ec in Akron, and people still ask me things at church. How to fold a fitted sheet, and when to quit.
	A Candle for Grandpa Harry by Darlene Edelman · Heartland/Pointe My grandfather Harry Edelman sold nails, keys and good advice on the same Bronx corner for forty years. His first yahrzeit was this week.
	The Town Under the Lake by Alice Pimentel · Heartland/Meadows I grew up in a Gold Rush town in the Sierra foothills. In 1955 a new dam's lake covered Main Street. This is how it was.
	Homesteading Without a Computer by Jessie Gibson · Heartland/Hills No computer at home? Me either. How I built and keep this page thirty minutes at a time at the county library.
	When the Dust Blew: A Panhandle Boyhood, 1921-1940 by Arthur Farr · Heartland/Plains I was thirteen on Black Sunday, 1935. My boyhood on a wheat farm in the Oklahoma Panhandle, written down at seventy-eight for my grandchildren.
	Bunco Babes of Shady Creek by Vonda Badgett · Heartland/Meadows Twelve moms, three tables, nine dice, one bell. How to play Bunco, our fall host schedule, the prizes, and who took home the fuzzy dice.
	Grandma and Grandpa, Again by Lester and Brenda Fuller · Heartland/Plains We raised our kids. Now we're raising our grandsons. Our story, the legal and school questions we had, and our Second Time Around group.
	Big Mama's Children: The Breazeale Family by Rosemarie Chambliss · Heartland/Plains Sylvia Breazeale raised eleven children on forty acres in the Mississippi Delta. Her life, the family tree, the reunion, and Big Mama's Table.
	Kristen's 65 Roses by Matthew and Gwendolyn Kidd · Heartland/Hills Our daughter Kristen is six and has cystic fibrosis. Our day from the vest to the enzymes, what CF is, and our Great Strides walk.
	The Five Sisters' Round Robin (Since 1958) by Diane Halvorson · Heartland/Prairie My mother and her four sisters have kept one round-robin letter going since 1958. Its history, its rules, and this summer's packet.
	The Cedars Society of Toledo by Roberto Khalil · Heartland/Hills Lebanese and Syrian families of Toledo together since 1931: the summer mahrajan, our fall hafla, Arabic class for the children, scholarships, and our history.
	Brandon and James Come Home by Michael and Mary Pullins · Heartland/Farm Two brothers, 10 and 8, came to live with us from foster care in 1997. What older-child adoption is really like, the paperwork, and questions to ask.
	Ninety-Eight Days by Janet Andrus · Heartland/Meadows Julius was born at 26 weeks in February and came home 98 days later. Our NICU story, a dictionary of NICU words, and hope for preemie parents.
	dad (1947-1999) by Franklin McCool · Heartland/Valley My dad had a heart attack on August 14. He was 52. I don't know what else to do, so I'm writing it down here.
	Sexton Farm, 1894-1998 by Norman Sexton · Heartland/Farm My grandfather built the barn in 1894. My son milked the last cow in 1998. Four generations of a Vermont dairy farm, and the day of the auction.
	Is Your Page WebTV Friendly? by Willie Wass · Heartland/Meadows I surf from my recliner on WebTV. Here's how your page looks on a television, and how to make it friendlier for folks like me.
	The Cates Family Christmas Letter 1996 by Edward and Ellen Cates · Heartland/Hills Merry Christmas from Ed, Ellen, Clayton and Paige! Our year in Knoxville, the kids' news, and Ellen's cranberry bread recipe.
	Sixty Years Down the Yellow Brick Road by Nancy Miner · Heartland/Plains I saw The Wizard of Oz in 1939 at age eight. The movie at sixty, its cast, and Mr. Baum's fourteen books on my shelf.
	Next Year Country by Russell and Mary Carpenter · Heartland/Prairie Third-generation wheat farmers near Devils Lake, North Dakota, on wet years, scab, the rising lake, low prices, and the hardest part, which is talking about it.
	The Quietest Auctioneer in Kansas by Bob Fountain · Heartland/Ranch Forty years I called cattle sales in western Kansas. In 1996 throat cancer took my voice box. How a laryngectomee talks, and what neighbors should know.
	Ina Ewing's Ranch Poems - From the Cookhouse Side by Ina Ewing · Heartland/Ranch Rhymed poems from a cow outfit in Elko County, Nevada, written from the cookhouse side: branding dinners, 2 a.m. heifers, and my husband's knees.
	Recuerdos: Memories of Willie Espinosa by Willie Espinosa · Heartland/Valley I was born in 1913 in a mountain village in northern New Mexico. My memories, typed by my granddaughter, for my family and for you.
	THE ROCK Youth Group - Wednesday Nights!! by Charity, 16 · Heartland/Valley Wednesday nights at 7! Games, worship band, small groups and pizza. Our fall retreat October 8-10, the November lock-in, and our prayer list.
	Putting Your Church on the Web by Joyce Kiely · Heartland/Valley Service times first, prayer requests never without asking. Putting your church on the Web, from a church secretary of twenty-two years.
	Brother Arthur's Clean Jokes & True Church Stories by Arthur King · Heartland/Hills Thirty-eight years preaching in Kentucky churches gave me two things: a clean joke for every sermon and stories nobody would believe. Here are both.
	The Society for the Recognition of Middle Children by Jo Mallory · Heartland/Valley Not the oldest. Not the baby. The official home of the rest of us: our charter, membership card and annual meeting, held July 2.
	Courtney's Page - Moving Day Is Saturday by Courtney, 17 · Heartland/Valley We're moving to Houston on June 20. A goodbye to my friends, my swim team, my town and my room. Please write to me!!
	Merrill Creek Centennial 1896-1996 by Lillian Ford · Heartland/Plains Merrill Creek, South Dakota, turns 100 this summer! The schedule, our history, the time capsule, and centennial souvenirs by mail.
	Our Son Richard: A Family and Schizophrenia by Myron and Mary Siegel · Heartland/Pointe Our son Richard was diagnosed with schizophrenia at twenty, in 1984. Fifteen years later, what we've learned, and what we'd tell a family just starting out.
	Letters from the Claim: Ruby Wachter's Montana Letters, 1912-1921 by Susan Wood · Heartland/Farm My great-grandmother homesteaded in eastern Montana in 1912 and wrote to her sister in Ohio for nine years. Her letters, typed just as she wrote them.
	You Know You're a Farm Kid When... by Lindsey, 13 · Heartland/Prairie You know you're a farm kid when your alarm clock moos. Fifty-five signs from our corn-and-cattle farm in Nebraska, with help from my brothers.
	Queen Farm Y2K Compliance Office by Elton Queen · Heartland/Farm I tested every machine and animal on the place for the Year 2000 problem. The cows passed. The rooster is under review. Full results inside.
	What Are the Kids Playing? A Parents' Guide to Video Games by Richard and Connie Wardlaw · Heartland/Pointe Two parents of three explain the video game rating letters and review the games in our house, from Spyro to the ones we said no to.
	Home Shift: Essays from a Stay-at-Home Dad by Bruce Carriere · Heartland/Meadows I left drafting in 1997 to stay home with our twins. Essays on laundry math, the only dad at story time, and what the mailman knows.
	Cedar Spring Homecoming - One Hundred Years, 1899-1999 by Olive Bivens · Heartland/Hills Our church began in a brush arbor in 1899. On August 15, two hundred of us came home to celebrate. The day, the dinner and our history.
	The Suttles Dairy Maternity Pen Cam by Donald and Sue Suttles · Heartland/Farm Our maternity pen, live: no more walking out to the barn at 2 a.m. to check on a cow. Clover is due Tuesday!
	Ollie Harvesting - Following the Wheat, Summer '99 by Randy and Donna Ollie · Heartland/Plains Three combines, two trucks, two trailer houses, four hired men, two kids and me cooking. Our 1999 harvest run, Texas to North Dakota and home.
	Para kay Nanay - Our House in Dasmariñas by Mary Ann Mercado · Heartland/Pointe Nanay, this is our house. Month by month, from the steel bars in February to the first coat of paint, for our mother working in Hong Kong. See you in December!
	NAP TIME - A Comic Strip About Twins by Marvin McGonagle · Heartland/Hills Two two-year-olds, one dad, and two hours of nap time to draw in, if I'm lucky. A gag strip in ink and watercolor, new Mondays and Thursdays.
	Double-Deck Pinochle at the Wiles Kitchen Table by Rosemary Wiles · Heartland/Hills My husband's family has played double-deck pinochle at this table every Sunday night since 1964. How we play, the meld chart, our family rules, and the score book.

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